Ikkiertok is the Inuktitut or Eskimo language word for 'feels cold' and before anyone gets on their high horse about 'Eskimo' being a bad word and the correct word being Inuit, note that Eskimo is a Cree word and used by many Inuit interchangeably, secondly I am not known for my political correctness. But I digress. It is commonly acknowledged that the tribes moved across the land bridge from Asia to the Americas over what is now the Bering Straight some 20,000 years ago.

The origins of man are believed by most to have been in what we now call Africa, homo sapiens appeared about 250,000 years ago and modern man arrived only about 50,000 years ago when he first started comparing gadgets with his mates and complaining about how oppressively hot it was. Unsurprisingly, this is about the same time the first of our predecessors left Africa to colonise the rest of the world.

During the migration of man people spread across Europe, Asia, Australasia and, about 20,000 years ago, began the push across Siberia to the Americas, some settling in Greenland, Alaska and Northern Canada on their way to more southerly climes. What seems more amazing than the inexorable spread of man, is the fact that at no point during the long march across the Arctic did anyone say "What the fuck are we doing here? Let's go back to Africa!"